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enThe Arts and the Imago Dei, Part Ihttp://www.worshipedia.org/node/1575
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: larger; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule [KJV says “have dominion”] over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." &nbsp;So God created man <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:<br />
normal">in his own image</b>,</i>…” Genesis 1:26.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: larger; "><br /></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: larger; ">In an earlier post I stated that the doctrine of the <em>imago dei</em> says that we have <u>at least</u> three things:<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: larger; ">1. The divine mandate to have dominion over the earth<br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: larger; ">2.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">&nbsp;</span>The mental, physical, and spiritual ability to obey that mandate<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">3.&nbsp;</span>The innate spark of the creative drive</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1578" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollWilson, William B.homepageFri, 05 Nov 2010 16:31:44 +0000price-psc1578 at http://www.worshipedia.orgAncient-Future Worship: Always Both-And, Never Either-Or, Part 1 http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1541
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Darrell A. Harris, D.W.S.</span><br /><br />“What has been before will be again,” my paternal grandmother said. She often saw the events of the past not only recurring in the present, but giving shape to the future as well. While the term ancient-future appears at first glance to be a construct comprised of mutually exclusive terms, my grandmother’s wisdom may offer some insight.<br /><br />After nearly twenty years of friendship with Bob Webber and then having read his <em>Ancient-Future Worship</em>, I am overwhelmed at the scope, the sweep and the comprehensive richness of his concept. As contemporary worshippers hunger for the authenticity of the worship of ancient Israel and the early church, we may be catching glimpses of the eternal future of worship.It occurs to me that there are five paradoxical dyads always in play in ancient-future worship.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px;">
</span></span></em></span></span></div><p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1541" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollDarrell A. Harris, D.W.S.Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:59:42 +0000price-psc1541 at http://www.worshipedia.orgHelp! I'm Leading by Example (And I'm Not a Very Good One)http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1560
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by Chris Beatty</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><br />A choir director recently called me and said,&nbsp;“Help! I’m leading by example and I’m not a very good one!”<br /><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /><strong>We all do it.</strong><br /></span></span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">We all lead by example. It’s just the way things work. Our children learn how to speak by imitating those who raise them. That can be good, or that can be bad. Our singers are watching and listening to our vocal and musical guidance and that, also, can be good . . . or bad, depending on what we are doing.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span style="font-size: larger; ">&nbsp;<i>“The curtain comes down on the Old Testament with the prophet Malachi declaring that Elijah will be sent to the people, followed by years of silence…Four hundred years of silence.</i></span></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Resignation is a soul-deadening, light-obscuring posture of the soul. There is a hopeless inevitability in it that slowly shuts the door to God’s comforting light. When Zechariah the priest entered the temple to burn incense that day a double-portion of resignation is residing in his soul. As an Israelite, he is the member of a conquered people. As a man he is the husband of a barren wife.
</span></span></div><p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1581" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollWaterman, CarlahomepageWed, 15 Dec 2010 23:02:55 +0000harrisda11581 at http://www.worshipedia.orgThe Power and Purpose of A Cappella Singing in Congregational Song, Part 1http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1493
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Eric Wyse</span><br />&nbsp;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><em><span style="font-size: larger;">An Historical Look at Singing in Worship</span></em></span><b><o:p></o:p></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><br /><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;">Throughout the history of the Christian Church, congregational song has been an important part of the worship service; and for much of Church history, the primary instrument utilized was the unaccompanied human voice. Since the Middle Ages, the addition of musical instruments for accompaniment to the human voice has increasingly diminished the role of <i>a cappella</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> congregational singing. And today, in the ever-changing landscape of modern Church music–whether traditional, contemporary or an convergence of styles–there seems to be little room for the chorus of human voices, unaccompanied by any instrument, singing together in worship of God.&nbsp;&nbsp;What is the importance of unaccompanied singing in the worship community? Why has this ancient form been virtually lost in modern practice, and can it be restored in the context of 21st century Christianity? These timely questions must be asked, and then answered satisfactorily, if the Church desires to corporately worship Almighty God in a more meaningful and excellent way.</span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Their role was to encircle the tent. The Levites were to be human insulation: both protecting the priests and the holy things from unclean contamination from without and protecting the people in the camp from holy retribution from within.</p>
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</span></em></span></span></div><p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1577" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollWaterman, CarlahomepageThu, 04 Nov 2010 19:21:19 +0000price-psc1577 at http://www.worshipedia.orgThe Power and Purpose of A Cappella Singing in Congregational Song, Part 2http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1558
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by Eric Wyse</span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><em><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Why and How of <i style="">A Cappella</i> Singing in Worship</span></em></span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p><span style="font-size: larger;">All though the preponderance of music in the Church over the last two millennia has been sung unaccompanied, the Church has never taught that instruments are not allowed. Although many congregations today use accompaniment exclusively, the singing of hymns by voices alone is important and should be a part of every congregation’s offering of praise.<br /></span></o:p></span></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by Harold M. Best., D.S.M. &amp; David K. Huttar, Ph.D.</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><br />If one were to take the position that only those things that Scripture specifically allows are allowable and those that Scripture does not specifically mention are prohibited, then the perimeters of musical practice in the New Testament would be severely limited. There are two basic reasons why this cannot be the case and why the “philosophy” of church music in the New Testament is, in fact, exceedingly broad.<br /><span lang="en-us"><br />First, the Old Testament was still considered the scriptural authority for the early church (</span><span lang="en-us">2 Timothy 3:16–17</span><span lang="en-us">). Hence its broad principles and practices were normative, though now Christ-centered. Second, by maintaining the perspectives on righteousness, faith, and lawfulness inherent in God’s revelation throughout the Old Testament, the writers of the New Testament are careful to maintain these by extension. Hence Paul’s conclusion in </span><span lang="en-us">Romans 14</span><span lang="en-us"> that nothing is impure in itself is an extension and a further filling out of the concept of the goodness of creation found early in Genesis. To Paul, the ultimate right was to avoid the offense of one’s own conscience or that of one’s neighbor by the superiority of quality of life over categories of creation. The Judeo-Christian worldview is unique in that it refuses to locate moral causation in the created order. Rather, it places moral responsibility squarely within the human heart. For this reason the Greek ethos, which ultimately says that both the creative and the created orders have an inherent power and which implicitly allows humankind to locate virtue or its opposite in the created order, is by principle out of place in the Judeo-Christian worldview. Therefore, what the New Testament leaves unsaid about music, among other things, has a healthy quality.<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><em><span lang="en-us">
</span></em></span></span></div><p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1540" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollTue, 13 Apr 2010 05:10:55 +0000price-psc1540 at http://www.worshipedia.orgJohn Wesley’s Directions for Singing in Worship with Commentary (from Select Hymns 1761)http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1494
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Darrell A. Harris, D.W.S.</span><br /><br />In an era where we can often not hear out own voice and the voices of those next to us, these directions can easily&nbsp; seem archaic. However, imagined in an unplugged, acoustic context, they readily spring to contemporary life!<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><br /></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><em><span style="font-size: larger;">I. Learn these tunes before you learn any others; afterwards learn as many as you please.</span></em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;">&nbsp;&nbsp; It is always good to have shared repertoire . . . shared musical touchstones.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;">II. Sing them exactly as they are printed here, without altering or mending them at all; and if you have learned to sing them otherwise, unlearn it as soon as you can.</span></span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1494" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollDarrell A. Harris, D.W.S.homepageMon, 12 Apr 2010 21:39:44 +0000harrisda11494 at http://www.worshipedia.orgMaking Discipleshttp://www.worshipedia.org/node/1496
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by Jim Altizer, D.W.S.</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: larger;">Do the services I plan help to make disciples?&nbsp; It’s a hard question to answer, but since Jesus’ parting shot was to “go make disciples,” I thought I should at least ask. Robert Webber said that, ultimately, we must judge our services by their content, rather than by their style.&nbsp; So . . . what’s the content of the services I plan?<br /><br />I’ll assume that whoever is preaching is staying close to the Book, and telling it straight, but what about the rest . . . is THAT stuff contributing to the making of disciples?&nbsp; Are my people acknowledging Christ in others, or just shaking hands?&nbsp; Are their corporate prayers full of truth, confession, belief and thanksgiving, or just petition?&nbsp; Do I design opportunities for worshipers to actually offer themselves, or just throw some money into the bag?&nbsp; Have I figured out orderly ways for my people to minister to one another, or just be nice to each other?&nbsp; Is Communion really communal; Eucharist really thanksgiving?&nbsp; I mean, we Protestants are so proud that we don’t represent Christ as still hanging on the cross, so why do my Communion services feel so much like a funeral?</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><strong>
</strong></span></div><p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1496" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollAltizer, JimhomepageMon, 12 Apr 2010 22:20:11 +0000harrisj191496 at http://www.worshipedia.orgTrinitarian Worship, Part 1http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1516
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by the Reverend Berten Waggoner, M.Div.</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><br />The God we worship is a Trinitarian God. We know no other God than the one revealed in Jesus Christ - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. John Calvin put it well, “unless we think — of God as Trinitarian we have no knowledge of God at all, only the Word “God” flutters through our brain naked, and void of meaning.”&nbsp; (Quoted by Leonard Hodgson,<i> The Doctrine of the Trinity</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, p.15)<br /><br />The triune God is the boast of the Christian faith.&nbsp; Samuel Taylor Coleridge called the doctrine of the trinity the “idea of ideas.” “It is,” he said, “that great truth, in which are contained all treasures of all possible knowledge. (Colin Gunton, <i>The One, The Three and The Many</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, p. 144)” The truth of the Trinity is priceless, and incomparable. It is a teaching about God’s life and our life with him that explores worship, relationship, personhood, and community in light of the revelation in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">
</span></span></div><p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1516" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollWaggoner, BertenhomepageTue, 13 Apr 2010 01:13:12 +0000harrisj191516 at http://www.worshipedia.orgTrinitarian Worship, Part 2http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1559
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by the Reverend Berten Waggoner M.Div.</span></span></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><br /><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">In Part 1 of “Trinitarian Worship” The Reverend Berten Waggoner showed the importance of the Trinity quoting from sources as diverse as John Calvin, Percy Bysche Shelley, Colin Gunton and Karl Rahner. And he showed that the erosion of the focus of the Trinity in worship is not only the responsibility of theologians but also of worship leaders. Here he continues . . .</span></span></i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.worshipedia.org/node/1559" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Daily ScrollWaggoner, BertenMon, 26 Apr 2010 20:02:15 +0000price-psc1559 at http://www.worshipedia.orgPsalm 84: The Sparrow's Nesthttp://www.worshipedia.org/node/1491
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">by Carla Waterman, Ph.D.</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><br />I once read an indignant commentary on Psalm 84:3. The writer was appalled at the suggestion that messy birds would be allowed anywhere near the altar of God, let alone make their home there.&nbsp; I laughed as I thought, “Oh dear friend, hast thou not a poetic imagination?” Apparently not. I find the imagery beautiful:<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Even the sparrow finds a home,<br /></span></span></span><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">and the swallow a nest for herself<br /></span></span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">where she may lay her young,<br /></span></span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">at your altars, O Lord of hosts.</span></span></span></div>
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